A Guatemalan national previously removed from the United States three times received a federal prison term of more than six years after convictions for possessing images and videos of child sexual abuse and for reentering the country unlawfully.

The Justice Department said last week that Roni Mendez-Escobar viewed, downloaded, and kept 46 images and 65 videos of that kind on his devices from October 2024 through August 2025. Fairfax County, Virginia, officers arrested him in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement then lodged a detainer, and county authorities released him days later. Agents took him into custody in April after a court appearance. He had last been deported in 2015 and later crossed the border again without being intercepted.